I Want my 4.09 Spit FM's back.........

[Nicholaiovitch]

It would be nice to hear from the TD chap who must have spent hours researching and then implementing his findings in making the changes to the FM.

Could we please have a detailed response from TD?

From my point of view, I tried to find something from within 4.10 that would help try and fly this new FM with more success.

One of the new additions is the ability to set the value of trim input from within the arming page by selecting a joystick profile (if you are lucky enough to have an X52 or similar with trim input via a wheel and are able to assign an axis). I therefore set about building a joystick profile specifically for the early MkV.

Starting with rudder trim profile (to try and counter the new and very sensitive lateral instability) I ended up with my sliders for rudder trim all set at 35. This enables the use of full right rudder trim for take-off as IRL pilot's manual entries. This also provides a far less sensitive in-flight trim input reducing oscillation. Although not ridding the aileron trim issue problem, it does seem to provide less stick input once a fine rudder trim setting is achieved.

For elevator trim settings, I ended up with the left slider at 40 and the last slider at 85 with a straight line between. This also gives a reduced trim sensitivity and the last setting of 85 gives a stick free approach speed of around 1.3VS (80-90mph) in the landing configuration with approach power of 25-30%.

These settings seem to help provide a profile tailored to the new FM and I am now using them for all the variants.

Until we hear a detailed description of how TD came to produce this new FM, it seems sensible to try and work around it and try and see from their point of view how allowing up to 4 joystick profiles helps to enable one set of controls to fly all the varying aircraft types with all their various trim requirements.

Please TD....could you give us more depth in your reasoning for the changes and help to satisfy the huge interest in this subject.

Thanks...

Nicholaiovitch